YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute in Rogers http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22649655 en Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:30:50 EDT Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:30:50 EDT Re: YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22703896 MikeRCMP : Try traceroute.org and trace from both west and east coast, you quite often will see where the bottleneck is, the host name of the company who manages the router.

I hate to say this but trying to explain routing issues to rogers tech support will not work. we are all trained to think every issue is related to dns. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22703896 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:20:37 EDT Re: YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22664461 Xerom62 : Youtube's been crap lately. I was trying to watch some videos today and it brought back [buffering...] memories of RealPlayer.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22664461 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:23:01 EDT Re: YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22655863 anon : Youtube must be having some problems. I noticed it was kinda slow for me the other day. I'm on Shaw.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22655863 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:54:13 EDT Re: YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22654048 sbrook : There are people on Bell also complaining about slow youtube performance. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22654048 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:31:46 EDT Re: YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22652353 Rayson :
said by sbrook See Profile :

DNS has nothing to do with the speed of, for example, you tube. Slow DNS affects the ability to initiate the load of your page or requests within that page to different URLs.
Well, I know. But there was not information from Gary, so we are not sure if it was the page load time that is slow or actual speed of youtube download. Further, since the google homepage is really clean and small (8k for logo.gif, and a simple html file), I am not sure if the speed of the link has much to do with it.

In general, switching to OpenDNS fixes many of the issues.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22652353 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:39:44 EDT Re: YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22651278 sbrook : DNS has nothing to do with the speed of, for example, you tube. Slow DNS affects the ability to initiate the load of your page or requests within that page to different URLs.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22651278 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:58:13 EDT Re: YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22650928 Rayson :
said by Gary W See Profile :

Okay, although I brought it up because Google has been really slow for me lately.
I found that it's usually due to Rogers' DNS servers...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22650928 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:43:26 EDT Re: YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22650228 Gary W : Okay, although I brought it up because Google has been really slow for me lately.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22650228 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:04:15 EDT Re: YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22649690 sbrook : again, that doesn't mean anything except that they have turned off ping response. It's a common thing to do ... it helps protect them against DDoS attacks.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22649690 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:56:28 EDT Re: YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22649683 Gary W : In addition, when I Traceroute google.com, it times out entirely after 10 hops. After that, every hop is timing out.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22649683 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:53:37 EDT Re: YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22649666 sbrook : OK, the 4 timeouts you see are nothing to do with anything significant ... they are simply occuring because the routers that it's trying to ping have ping response disabled.

That said, you definitely seem to have some intermittent local congestion issues from the odd very high pings.

Unless this is occurring with lots of sites, Rogers will disavow any responsibility ... And from this limited info, it's really hard to say ... the actual pings to youtube are a little high, but not so bad as to give significantly poor performance.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22649666 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:48:11 EDT YouTube is really slow; it times out 4 times in Traceroute http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22649655 Gary W : YouTube has been really slow for me lately, so I ran a Traceroute on it. It times out four times during the process! Is this related to why YouTube is so slow for me? Is this happening to anyone else, and is there anything that I can do about it? Here are the results:

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